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This article is about the language. For Ethnic Malays residing in Sarawak, see Sarawakian Malay people.
Sarawak Malay
Kelakar Sarawak
Native to
Sarawak
Native speakers
(undated figure of 900,000–1,200,000[citation needed])
Language family
Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian
(disputed)
Malayic
Sarawak Malay
Dialects
Kuching
Saribas
Sibu
Language codes
ISO 639-3
(covered by zlm)
Linguist List
zlm-sar
Glottolog
sara1351
Sarawak Malay (Standard Malay: Bahasa Melayu Sarawak or Bahasa Sarawak, Jawi: بهاس ملايو سراوق, Sarawak Malay: Kelakar Sarawak) is a Malayic language native to the State of Sarawak. It is a common language used by natives of Sarawak[1] and also as the important mother tongue for the Sarawakian Malay people.
This Malay variant is related to Bruneian Malay. The Sarawakian Malay language also bears strong similarities with the West Kalimantan Malay language around Sanggau, Sintang and Sekadau in the northern part of the West Kalimantan province of Indonesia.
^"Sarawak, a land of many tongues". theborneopost.com. Borneo Post. 23 December 2010. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
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